Conservation Action

Members of the WHSRN Executive Office team traveled to Buenos Aires this month to meet with Argentina’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. The successful meeting led to an [...]

Last month, the WHSRN Executive Office and partner organization SAVE Brasil led another workshop in Porto Alegre, Brazil to work towards preserving the protected status of Lagoa do Peixe National [...]

Ecuador’s new Shorebird Conservation Plan will serve as the guiding document for national action to conserve shorebirds and their habitats. Read about the celebration at Ecuador's second [...]

The wetlands at the mouth of the Río Lluta are under strong pressure to be developed. Last month, WHSRN’s Diego Luna Quevedo facilitated a Good Governance Workshop with several local partners to [...]

The Salton Sea is a critical rest stop for more than 400 species of nesting, wintering, and migrating birds making their way through the desert of southern California. But today, the sea is [...]

The results are in from the January/February Central American Waterbird Census (CAWC)! Three sites proved to be especially important to Nearctic shorebirds, qualifying as potential new WHSRN [...]

Laguna Mar Chiquita is the largest lake in Argentina, the biggest saline lake in South America, and the 5th biggest saline lake in the world. A WHSRN site since 1989, the area supports 66% of all [...]

WHSRN Consultant Ornithologist Chris Sharpe and Sandra Giner of the Central University of Venezuela led a workshop titled Shorebird Conservation in Venezuela: introduction to census methods and [...]

WHSRN Conservation Specialist Diego Luna Quevedo led a new workshop: “Alliances and Actions for Shorebird Conservation and Habitat Management in Los Olivitos.” The workshop took place at WHSRN’s [...]

Local fieldworkers knew that estancia Medaland was an important site for migratory grassland shorebirds. At the end of 2017, a comprehensive survey revealed that the ranch meets the threshold to [...]